INDIAN LIBEL ACTION.
THE JUDGE’S COMMENTS
(Australian nnd N.Z. Cabin Association
(Received May 6, 2.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 5.
At the hearing of the O’Dwver libel case counsel for the defence raised an issue as to the propriety of Captain Dyer’s action. Air. Justice. McArdio asked: “If wlwt Dyer did was necessary for preventing anarchy can iit- he said lie was wrong l” and added, ?“If five hundred were killed half a million were saved. The police had completely lost control. You seem to he ignoring! the grave consequences that might- have followed if Dyer’s force had been destroyed.” Later M,r. Justice McCardie interposed that he could not- see a distinction in. principle: between a policeman’s bludgeon and a soldier’s .rifle, or.* an aviator’s bomb, iri suppressing a rebellion. Thd lien
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16423, 6 May 1924, Page 9
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